HMD's 2020 Bridge Project POWER SHIFT: Improvisation, Activism, and Community presents
Exploring Not Knowing: Artmaking through the Senses, a two-hour improvisation practice with Rosemary Hannon & Maurice Moore. No movement background necessary to participate.
Saturday OCTOBER 24, 2020, 11 AM - 1 PM
TICKETS: $20.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If $20 is above your means, please select the "sliding scale - you decide" or "NOTAFLOF" ticket options at check-out.
Register for 2 Power Shift events and SAVE 10%. Register for 3 or more Power Shift events and SAVE 15%. Email admin@hopemohr.org for discount codes.
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LOCATION: This event will take place at a San Francisco outdoor location. We will notify you of the address once the decision is finalized.
Capacity limited to 9 attendees. Masks will be required.
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*HMD's commitment to bringing people together through art and dialogue drives everything we do. We are currently in dialogue with POWER SHIFT artists to reimagine events that bring us together safely as we navigate the covid-19 pandemic. All POWER SHIFT events will take place in the digital space, or in-person at outdoor locations with restrictions on capacity and ample space for safe distancing. Masks will be required at in-person events. All events are subject to change. We look forward to sharing art and community with you this coming fall.
QUESTIONS? Email admin@hopemohr.org
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ABOUT EXPLORING NOT KNOWING: ARTMAKING THROUGH THE SENSES | Maurice Moore and Rosemary Hannon will facilitate improvisational work with material collaboration. Maurice will explore mark making with other senses. Rosemary will offer pausing practice and collaborative wandering in an overlapping, timed group score. These scores are open-ended propositions for a shared practice that values doing ‘nothing productive’ for both embodied pleasure and the resistance of capitalist values.
ABOUT ROSEMARY HANNON | Rosemary Hannon is a dancer and choreographer whose projects explore perception, perseverance, femininity, the intersection of identity and aesthetic values, the nature of story, and somatic experience within shifting cultural contexts. Compositional rituals make me think that deep conversation is possible. In addition to creating projects, I also perform in the work of other choreographers, teach and organize dance events.
ABOUT MAURICE MOORE | Maurice Moore has recently completed his Master’s in African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the spring of 2018. From 2011 to 2017, he has exhibited work and performed at the Christina Ray Gallery in Soho New York, the Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh North Carolina, the Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville North Carolina, and the Gallery 307 + Orbit Galleries in Georgia Athens, and has worked with Rios/Miralda for the Garbage Celebration performance. The exhibition for his Master’s of Fine Arts thesis at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro was installed at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in May of 2011. In 2012, his first solo show was exhibited at The Center for Visual Artists in Greensboro North Carolina. Throughout his collegiate career he has been awarded residences, fellowships and scholarships at the Penland School of Crafts, Ox-Bow, the Rios/Miralda Garbage Celebration Residency, the Herbert & Virginia H. Howard Scholarship, the Helen Thrush Scholarship, Milo and Virgil’s Fabulous Fund Scholarship, the Advanced Opportunity Fellowship for the College of Letters & Science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the Provost’s Fellowships in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for a first year of study during the 2018-2019 academic year at the University of California-Davis. Based on Maurice’s performance practice, his work explores how Black queer people have implemented and created a means of survival through performance. For Maurice Black performance serves as a mode of active radical resistance drawing upon traditions and technologies such as call and response, improvisation, masking, reading, throwing shade and African-American Vernacular English.
ABOUT POWER SHIFT | POWER SHIFT: Improvisation, Activism, and Community invites artists and activists to share the practice and performance of improvisation. Co-curated by Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr, and Karla Quintero, POWER SHIFT brings you inside the improvisational practices of Black/African American, Latinx/Latin American, Asian American, female-identifying and queer improvisers and social justice activists. The program highlights voices from African dance, jazz aesthetics, social and street dance, contemporary forms, and Capoeira.
POWER SHIFT is about more than performance. A wide array of intensives and workshops at the intersection of dance and social action offer opportunities to build and share tools for the creative process. In these spaces, we will move and imagine together. We will cultivate power and resilience in the face of shifting and uncertain landscapes.
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Photo: Maurice Moore courtesy of the artist, Rosemary Hannon by Kegan Marling
For more information on the entire Power Shift line up visit bridgeproject.art/powershift.
